Director
Professor Jamal Yagoobi
George I. Alden Professor and Head Mechanical & Materials Engineering Department
Current PhD Students
Zahra Noori
PhD Candidate (co-advised by Prof. B. Tilley)
Alexander Castaneda
PhD Candidate
Nathaniel O’Connor
PhD Candidate
Elif Asar
PhD Candidate
Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti
PhD Candidate
Hanshen Yu
PhD Candidate (co-advised by Prof. S. Narra)
Itamar Harris
PhD Candidate
Recently Graduated PhD Students
Milad Farzad
Mengqiao Yang
Michal Talmor
Undergraduate Students
Patrick Daly
Undergraduate
Grace Audette
Undergraduate
John Mansour
Undergraduate
Recent Visiting Scholars, Post Doctorates, Research Associates
Juan Rodriguez Ramirez
Professor
Masahito Nishikawara
Professor
- Dr. J.W. Mohr, Post-Doctorate from Texas A&M University, September 1996 – January 1997
- Dr. L. Ye-Bo, Exchange Visitor from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Beijing, China, April 1997 – March 1998
- Dr. H. Noboa, Research Associate from Ecuador National Polytechnic University, October 1998 – April 2000
- Dr. J. Madadnia, Visiting Faculty Member from the University of Technology-Sydney; Sydney, Australia, September 1999 – December 1999
- Dr. Y. Feng, Research Associate from Texas A&M University, July 2002 – August 2004
- Dr. C. Louste, Visiting Faculty Member from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, March 2010 and April 2016
- Dr. M. Daaboul, Research Associate from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, November 2010 – December 2010
- Dr. S. I. Jeong, Research Associate from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, July 2010 – June 2011
- Dr. P. A. Vazquez Gonzalez, Visiting Faculty Member from Dpto. Fisica Aplicada III, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, June 2012 – August 2012 and June 2015 – August 2015
- Dr. G. Touchard, Visiting Faculty Member from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, June 2013
- Dr. P. Traore, Visiting Faculty Member from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, July 2015 – August 2015
- Dr. F. Duran-Olivencia, Post-Doctorate from Dpto. Fisica Aplicada III, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, August 2017 – August 2018.
- Dr. H. El-Ferouali, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco, September 2018 – August 2019 (Fulbright scholar)
- Dr. M. Nishikawara, Visiting Faculty Member from Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, June 2019 – September 2021.
- Dr. J. Rodríguez Ramírez, Visiting Faculty Member from Instituto Politécnico Nacional CIIDIR Unidad Oaxaca, México, August 2019 – July 2020.
Former Students
Yasmin Khakpour
Graduated: May 2014
V. Patel
Graduated: May 2015
Milad Yazdani
Graduated: May 2010
Matthew Pearson
Graduated: May 2011
- M. Yang, Graduated: May 2022
- M. Talmor, Graduated: May 2022
- M. Farzad, Graduated: May 2021
- A. Mahdavi-Nejad, Graduated: August 2018
- L. Yang, Graduated: December 2017
- V. Patel, Graduated: 2015
- Y. Khakpour, Graduated: 2014
- M. Pearson, Graduated: 2011
- M. Yazdani, Graduated: 2010
- R. Sabbah, Graduated: December 2008
- S.A.S. Al Dini, Graduated: December 2005
- J. Hendrarsakti, Graduated: August 2003 (Co-Chaired with Professor K. Kihm)
- K.Brand, Graduated: August 2002
- S. I. Jeong, Graduated: August 2002
- Y. Feng, Graduated: August 2002
- J. Wu, Graduated: August 2002
- V. Narayanan, Graduated: December 2001
- M.C. Asensio, Graduated: May 2000
- M. Wawzyniak, Graduated: December 1999
- J.E. Bryan, Graduated: December 1998
- J.W. Mohr, Graduated: August 1996
- D.K. Habetz, Graduated: December 1993 (Co-advised by Professor R.H. Page)
- J. Wang, Graduated: December 1993